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...Successor to the late Joseph Robinson as Senate majority leader is (1 Samuel H. Reyburn, 2 Henrik Shipstead, 3 Bertrand H. Snell, 4 Robert M. La Follette Jr. 5 Alben W Barkley...
...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
Speaking in academic cap & gown to students of Washington's Peirce School, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared the U. S. has "more representation and more taxation than the forefathers ever dreamed...
Week previous to this pronouncement Kentuckian Alben Barkley had settled down to the bitterest of the many unpleasant tasks that he has had since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York...
When the special session opened last November with no Farm Bill in sight, Alben Barkley, like a Confederate general trapped into acting as a front for a group of carpetbaggers, unhappily unloosed the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill and its inevitable filibuster. It was temporarily laid aside when the Farm Bill appeared, but nothing is more important to a legislative leader than to keep his promises to the letter. So no sooner was the President's message out of the way last fortnight than Alben Barkley, still smarting from the abuses of the last filibuster, fulfilled his pledge, produced the Anti...